The AnandTech Linux XBOX PC Experiment

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• TimPope - Thursday, May 12, 2005 - link

  not bad information but i would have liked to see some kind of real world performance using openmosix.. a single x box on its own as a pc is slow but stick 2-4 together using open mosix could make a reasonably good machine and still be pretty cheap

• Halz - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - link

  The rule followed in the article for the -j option, "number of proccessors + 1", overlooked the logical proccessors of the Xeon's Hyperthreading.. -j should have then been something around 5 instead of 3

• Halz - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - link

  Simply compiling on the Opteron and Xeon with the same number of threads as the full cluster would have illustraighted a difference.
  
  More testing should have gone into finding how many threads was the ideal number for the given platforms.

• artifex - Saturday, November 13, 2004 - link

  Aikouka, can't you just use one of those "HD Loader" type programs WITHOUT a modchip?
  I'd be all for modding my PS/2 if I thought I could actually do something useful with it, like stream audio/video from a PC or a ReplayTV or something.

• KristopherKubicki - Saturday, November 13, 2004 - link

  Halz: what should it have been?
  
  Kristopher

• Aikouka - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - link

  23, yes, you can still do just about anything. I know with the software mod that I use, I've been having problems getting the original MS Dash to load up, but I've gotten around that using other programs for the original dashboard's functionality (dvd etc).
  
  You know, you can also replace the HDD with just a software mod, and it's not that hard. So, if you don't want to hardware mod and want more space, you can still put in a bigger HDD. As much as some people don't like the XBOX, in my opinion, it's probably the best console to mod.
  
  24, 2) Modchips also allow hdd loading if you have the PS2 HDD (using HDDLoader.) Also, it lets the warez'ers download and play games on the PS2 that they don't really own.

• artifex - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - link

  1) what we really need is a usb-based tv tuner that actually works. That would be excellent for adding functionality both to XBoxen as cheap PVRs (though I'd still just use XBMC to stream from my ReplayTV, most of the time), but also would be great for iMacs. I'm sure if someone came up with a decent open architecture design, the community would come up with drivers for both types of systems.
  
  2) what are modchips for PS2s useful for, other than playing import games? Especially with the new PS2s having no drive (is there still a header on the new board style to add one back?)
  
  3) did I miss the obligatory dnetc test? You gotta do that, you know.

• Booty - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - link

  I don't even own an Xbox, but reading this article has me reaching for my wallet...
  
  But first, I want to get this straight - I can mod the Xbox and still use XLink, right? I doubt I'd get a Live subscription anyway, but it'd be nice to have that option possible.
  
  Ideally I'd like to throw a bigger hard drive in there and then run XBMC, without losing the normal XBox capabilities.
  
  So if I can do that, I'm goin' to the store this weekend... :)

• Halz - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - link

  The compile options for the Opteron and Xeon were starving the CPUs; the number of jobs (-j) was no where near optimal.

• Halz - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - link